Hello. I hope you’re having an alright week. I have a cold and am feeling somewhat miserable, but being bitchy about pop culture helps!
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On Sunday the 81st annual Golden Globes aired and you could almost smell the Ozempic through the screen. I’d planned to watch with a friend but came down with the aforementioned cold over the weekend so instead watched through a haze of nighttime cold medicine (my DoorDasher made an ill-advised substitution). Robotripping did not enhance the experience, and in fact made certain segments, like Jo Koy’s universally panned opening monologue, even worse. I truly believe that this show does not need a host! Do some kind of pre-filmed opening segment where the birds from Migration get directed by Martin Scorcese opposite Natalie Portman in character as Elizabeth Berry from May December and call it a day!
Globes winners often win in blocks, and this year was no different. The Bear (which I don’t watch but hear is more of a drama) swept for TV comedy, and Succession (which I did watch and consider more of a comedy) won for TV drama. Film was a bit more split by category, and for the most part, the awards went where they were expected. The big surprise for me was that Barbie, which I did not like, didn’t win Best Comedy and instead only took home the award created so Barbie could win an award, which honestly should have tipped me off.
As far as fashion, my best dressed for the night were Rosamund Pike, Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman, Hunter Schafer, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. My worst dressed were Florence Pee-ew and Selena Gomez (whose eyebrow gel I just purchased, stay tuned).
I loved how much screen time Kylie and Timmy got, and I am further convinced that Kylie has never consumed a piece of narrative media in her entire life. They should get married.
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Early on Tuesday StudioCanal released the first trailer for Mothers’ Instinct starring Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain as 1950s housewives whose friendship falls apart when Hathaway’s son dies in a tragic accident. This has all the right ingredients necessary for a juicy thriller and — fine, I’ll say it — motherfest: restrictive gender roles, death, wigs, cigarettes, weird kid stuff that brings to mind Betty and Glenn on Mad Men. But the trailer's slightly campy tone (was it just me or was it giving A Simple Favor?) and lack of a release date make me concerned that we might have a well-intentioned flop on our hands. Still, seeing these women in period costumes acting their fake eyelashes off does have me wanting to tweet something along the lines of, “snorted so much ketamother they had a slayverdose.” Oops, I did.
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RuPaul’s Drag Race premiered last Friday, introducing us to the first of seven queens of season 16. Don’t they usually run this as a two-hour extravaganza? I had to keep checking to make sure there wasn’t another episode I was somehow missing.
Charlize Theron, whose Instagram handle is still @charlizeafrica, was the guest judge and it was obvious that some of the queens were too young to recognize her. Open the schools and play Snow White and the Huntsman in them!
I love Amanda Tori Meating’s name but hate everything she wore and the way she paints. I can recognize that Q was good even if I wasn’t gagged outside of her puppet show. It was an entertaining premiere but not a particularly exciting one, however I did purchase a season pass on iTunes so I will be watching.
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That’s all for today, but you can catch me on the HBO Girls Rewatch podcast this week talking about s4e7 “Ask Me My Name.” Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
Slayverdosed on this
obsessed with Anne's hair, I can't stop staring at it. what a helmet